Leaving neither monuments nor epics, Sparta’s enduring legacy is a military ideal, embodied in Leonidas, hero of Thermopylae, commemorated here in a statue in the modern city of Sparta in Greece.
Gerard Butler has recalled the brutalities of filming the 2006 action film 300 revealing that many of his co-stars were hospitalised after suffering injuries on set. In Zack Snyder’s 300, Butler stars ...
Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic ... The first woman to win an event - as a trainer that is - was Cynisca of Sparta. She won the four-horse chariot race with her team in two ...
In Zack Snyder’s 300, Butler stars as Leonidas, the King of Sparta, alongside co-stars Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, and Rodrigo Santoro. In an interview with People, Butler said ...
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now ...